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This volume provides students with a comprehensive guide through the Greek text of the Gospel of Luke. Together Culy, Parsons, and Stigall explain the text’s critical, lexical, grammatical, and linguistic aspects while revealing its carefully crafted narrative style. In all, they show the author of Luke to be a master communicator, well at home within the Greek biographical tradition.

16:16 Ὁ νόμος καὶ οἱ προφῆται μέχρι Ἰωάννου· ἀπὸ τότε ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ εὐαγγελίζεται καὶ πᾶς εἰς αὐτὴν βιάζεται. Ὁ νόμος καὶ οἱ προφῆται. Nominative subject of a verbless equative clause. Although a few scribes (D Θ) supplied the verb ἐπροφήτευσαν, following the parallel account in Matt 11:13, Luke simply writes “the Law and the Prophets (were) until John.” μέχρι Ἰωάννου. With the genitive, μέχρι functions as a preposition marking “continuance in time up to a
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